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Astrophotographer snaps skydiver falling in front of the sun

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471 points doener | 2 comments | 16 Nov 25 11:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.005s | source
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dahart ◴[16 Nov 25 16:11 UTC] No.45946132[source]▶
Is the full-sun photo edited to remove the paramotor? I just realized it was in the video shot - the head-down dive “tracking” position of the skydiver in the video happens only a few frames after jumping, only for a few frames, and after that he’s tumbling a bit against the sun, with the paramotor still visible. I’m guessing even if the video and still were two different cameras, they wouldn’t have been far enough apart to catch the skydiver without the paramotor?
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1. __atx__ ◴[17 Nov 25 08:08 UTC] No.45951713[source]▶
Apparently it took multiple tries to get this right. It is possible that the video is from one of the earlier failed attempts.
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2. bangaladore ◴[17 Nov 25 21:11 UTC] No.45958350[source]▶
On a Reddit thread somewhere, the OP mentioned the sun is taken as a mosaic, where the picture taken with just the person is a very small FOV which excludes the paramotor.